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Show 308 ngerie: from Mr. S T R AH A N, [Az D.T.] ments not to import till the repeal takes place, wz'tb Dr. Franklin': Anfwerr. 309 A. I do not fee how that method can be deemed include the whole; which fhews that they objeét repugnant to the rights of the crown. to the whole; and thofe agreements will continue Americans are put into their former fituation, it binding on them, if the whole is not repealed. 3d. ‘ Do you think the only efl'eétual way of ‘ compofing the prefent differences, 18 to put the If the mutt be by an aét of parliament; in the pafling of which by the King, the rights of the crown are exercifed, not infringed. It is indifferent to the ‘ Americans precifely in the fituation they were 1n crown, whether the aids received from America ‘ before the pafling of the late Ramp-act ? ' are granted by parliament here, or by the affemblies there, provided the quantum be the fame ; and it is my opinion, that more will be generally d. I think f0. _ . ' 4th. ‘ Your reafons for that OplnlOn P A. Other methods have been tried. They have been rebuked in angry letters. Their petitions have been refufed or rejected by parliament. They have been threatened with the puniflunents of treafon by refolves of both houfes. Their afTem- blies have been difTolved, and troops have been fent among them: But all thefe ways have only exafperated their minds and widened the breach. Their agreements to ufe no more Britifh manufactures have been Ptrengthened; and thefe meafures, infiead of competing differences, and pro- moting a goodjcorrefpondence, have almoft annihilated your commerce with thofe countries, and greatly endanger the national peace and general welfare. 5th. ‘ If this 1219: method is deemed by the ‘ legiflature and his Majefly's minifters to be 're‘ pugnant to their duty as guardians of the Juli ‘ rights ot the crown, and of their fellow-{ub- ‘ jeé'ts; can you fuggeft any other way of termi- granted there voluntarily, than can ever be ex- aéted or collected from thence by authority of parliament-As to the rights of fellow-fubjeéts (I fuppofe you mean the people of Britain) Ican- not conceive how thofe will be infringed by that method. They will {till enjoy the right of granting their own money, and may fiill, if it pleafes them, keep up their claim to the right of granting ours; a right they can never exercife properly, for want of a tuflicient knowledge of us, our circumt'tances and abilities (to fay nothing of the little likelihood there is that we fliould ever fubmit to it) therefore a right that can be of no good ufe to them; and we {hall continue to enjoy in faé‘t the right of granting our money, with the opinion now univertally prevailing among us, that we are free fubjeéts of the King, and that fellowa fubjeéts of one part of his dominions are not love- reigns over fellow-fubjeéts in any other part-If the fubjeéts on the difiereiit fides of the Atlantic ‘ nating thefe difputes, confident with the ideas have different and oppofite ideas of " juliice and ‘ of_juf'tice and propriety conceived by the King 5 f fubjeéts on éaz‘b fides the Atlantic ? ' " pro~ |
